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Cygnus Loop Nebula
Taken by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer in ultraviolet, the Cygnus Loop Nebula looks like some kind of deep-sea phosphorescent creature.
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South Carolina Beach Monster
A bizarre creature that washed ashore last week in South Carolina. (Discovery News) A bizarre creature that washed ashore last week in Folly Beach, S.C., sparked speculation in the area and on the Internet that a dead sea monster might have been discovered. The tan-brown animal with greenish patches was strange enough, but what really…
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Washington Swimming Pool Phantom
As far as ghost stories go, the one they tell at Arlington’s Overlee Community Pool is spine-tingling: A young girl in Victorian garb, appearing in the window of a 100-year-old house that sat on the property. Patrons sometimes hear odd bumps and noises or wander into inexplicable cold patches there. Now, as construction crews are…
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Cyborg Snail Power!
Snails have joined the growing ranks of animals whose own metabolism can be used to generate electricity. The dozen or so brown garden snails crawling around the plastic, moss-filled terrarium in Evgeny Katz’s laboratory look normal, but they have a hidden superpower: they produce electricity. Into each mollusc, Katz and his team at Clarkson University…
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Shoe shop haunted by ‘ghost’ of Luftwaffe pilot
Scared Sophie Dack-Stainer has been left trembling by the spooky soul haunting the shoe shop she runs. In November 1940 a German Luftwaffe plane crashed into Stainer’s cobblers in Poole, Dorset, killing the three pilots on board. Now, 72-years-later, an estranged WWII Nazi called Heinz haunts the store, scaring workers and customers alike. The shop,…
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Phantom Sweet Thrower
Security cameras at the IGA supermarket in Adelaide caught a packet of sweets being thrown after the store had closed and no one was about. The shop owner, Norman Hurst, is convinced that a sweet-toothed ghost is to blame. Mr Hurst said “I think it’s pretty cool actually – it hasn’t done anything nasty.” Mr…
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Australian Spider Invasion
After the recent severe floods, masses of spiders have been forced to seek new accomodation in and around Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. The normally solitary wolf spiders have congregated in their thousands and moved from their ground-based homes to seek higher, drier ground by spinning their webs above ground. [slideshow]
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RSPB
Very proud of my Son, David Markham and his work with the RSPB Phoenix Forum. Here’s his editorial from the latest issue of Wingbeat magazine.
